{"id":84497,"date":"2017-01-10T05:23:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T10:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=84497"},"modified":"2017-01-10T05:23:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T10:23:26","slug":"afp-to-get-10000-more-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/10\/afp-to-get-10000-more-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"AFP to get 10,000 more troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_84498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84498\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14522830_10154571239728766_6446496789750968228_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84498\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14522830_10154571239728766_6446496789750968228_n.jpg\" alt=\"AFP to get 10,000 more troops (Photo: Armed Forces of the Philippines\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14522830_10154571239728766_6446496789750968228_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14522830_10154571239728766_6446496789750968228_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14522830_10154571239728766_6446496789750968228_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AFP to get 10,000 more troops<br \/>(Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/armedforcesofthephilippines\/photos\/a.10152364615718766.1073741825.155758863765\/10154571239728766\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Armed Forces of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014Despite peace negotiations with various insurgent groups, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) announced that 10,000 more troopers are needed to meet the rising threats to the country&#8217;s national security.<\/p>\n<p>This was stressed by AFP public affairs office chief Col. Edgard Arevalo on what triggered the military to request an additional 10,000 soldiers from President Rodrigo Duterte Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He also clarified that the additional 10,000 troops have been long requested by the AFP but was only granted by the incumbent Chief Executive.<\/p>\n<p>At present, the AFP numbers around 125,000 troops with an 85,000 allocated to the Army and remaining 45,000 split between the Air Force and Navy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese additional troops are needed for our ongoing security engagements,\u201d Arevalo said in Filipino.<\/p>\n<p>Besides this, new soldiers are needed to man the brand-new equipment and platforms now being acquired by the AFP.<\/p>\n<p>He added that recruitment of these new troopers is already accompanied by a budget allocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014Despite peace negotiations with various insurgent groups, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) announced that 10,000 more troopers are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":84498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[3244],"class_list":["post-84497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-armed-forces-of-the-philippines","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}